Why the Eurocrats Can’t Stand Poland’s Law and Justice Party

Seeing Eastern European countries regain their political agency drives them crazy in Brussels.

By

Ryszard Legutko

Oct. 17, 2017 6:54 pm ET

Since Poland’s last parliamentary elections in November 2015, members of the losing Euro-federalist party, Civic Platform, have accused the ruling Law and Justice Party of violating the Polish Constitution and steering the country toward authoritarianism. The charge has been loudly repeated by European Union officials. But what critics call authoritarianism is merely an attempt to reclaim for the Polish state the basic instruments of power held by governments in France, Germany and every other European state